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An Introduction To Kasena Society And Culture Through Their Proverbs
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Book Synopsis An Introduction to Kasena Society and Culture Through Their Proverbs by : A. K. Awedoba
Download or read book An Introduction to Kasena Society and Culture Through Their Proverbs written by A. K. Awedoba and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For societies lacking written documentary records, such as the Kasena people of Upper Eastern Ghana and Burkina Faso, proverbs serve as valuable insights into the many facets of African life. In An Introduction to Kasena Society and Culture through their Proverbs, A.K. Awedoba attempts to shed light on Kasena culture and society through analysis of their proverbs. Awedoba interprets the proverbs and discusses their relevance in the context of the wider, African cultural background. He then analyzes the underlying meanings of these statements and finally proposes potential applications of the proverbs and sayings to Kasena culture and society. The proverbs of the Kasena people are powerful statements backed by the force of tradition, and the people believe they enshrine the wisdom of their ancestors. The proverbs are worthy subjects to engage the attention of anthropologists, as well as historians interested in primary accounts of an African society and its culture.
Book Synopsis An Introduction to Kasena Society and Culture Through Their Proverbs by : A. K. Awedoba
Download or read book An Introduction to Kasena Society and Culture Through Their Proverbs written by A. K. Awedoba and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For societies lacking written documentary records, such as the Kasena people of Upper Eastern Ghana and Burkina Faso, proverbs serve as valuable insights into the many facets of African life. In An Introduction to Kasena Society and Culture through their Proverbs, A.K. Awedoba attempts to shed light on Kasena culture and society through analysis of their proverbs. Awedoba interprets the proverbs and discusses their relevance in the context of the wider, African cultural background. He then analyzes the underlying meanings of these statements and finally proposes potential applications of the proverbs and sayings to Kasena culture and society. The proverbs of the Kasena people are powerful statements backed by the force of tradition, and the people believe they enshrine the wisdom of their ancestors. The proverbs are worthy subjects to engage the attention of anthropologists, as well as historians interested in primary accounts of an African society and its culture.
Book Synopsis African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture by : W. Jay Moon
Download or read book African Proverbs Reveal Christianity in Culture written by W. Jay Moon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many oral cultures local proverbs are highly regarded for their wisdom and prized for their aesthetic expression. In this study Jay Moon provides an in-depth look at the use of local proverbs among the Builsa culture of Ghana, West Africa. In particular, the author's research shows how local proverbs can facilitate contextualized expressions of Christianity that are both biblically authentic and culturally relevant. The process of initiating and sustaining this form of expression is explicated with the help of an engaging narrative, providing valuable insights for those striving for genuine and meaningful expression of Christ in culture. This study will be especially beneficial to the missionary community, particularly for the purposes of appreciating oral literature in primary oral cultures, finding proper roles in the contextualization process, identifying cultural values via the window of local proverbs, training missionaries in cultural understanding, and tailoring discipleship training to incorporate significant aspects of orality
Book Synopsis Jamaican Creole Proverbs by : Aleksandra R. Knapik
Download or read book Jamaican Creole Proverbs written by Aleksandra R. Knapik and published by Æ Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaican Creole, like many other contact languages, has taken its ultimate shape through the course of multi-lingual and multi-cultural influences. From the perspective of contact linguistics , this meticulous study examines Jamaican Creole proverbs in a corpus of over 1090 recorded sayings; it presents a framework of cultural changes in Jamaica accompanied by corresponding linguistic changes in its creole. The analysis clearly demonstrates that despite three centuries of extreme dominance by the British empire, Jamaicans successfully preserved the traditions of their own ancestors. Not only that. The poly-layered stimulus of various factors: geographic, cultural and, most prominently, linguistic, helped create a unique phenomenon – Jamaican creole culture. The vibrant life of the Jamaican people and their African background is best encapsulated in their proverbs, proverbs which constitute generations of wisdom passed from the 16th century and on. John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, Stanford University The research theme of the very publication entitled Jamaican Proverbs fromthe Perspective of Contact Linguistics is a successful analysis of both linguistic and cultural contacts between English and African cultures that have been shaping the vernacular language of Jamaica. The study material consists of 1092 proverbs, all of which can be regarded as a first-hand record of sociolinguistic events that have had important influence upon the formation of the Jamaican creole language and its registers. Dr. Knapik proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jamaican linguistic and cultural world is a great example of a thriving microcosm which continues to incorporate various elements and can also very well serve as the basis for future research on patterns of language and culture development. (…) prof. dr hab. dr h.c. (mult.) †Jacek Fisiak
Book Synopsis Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring by :
Download or read book Kashgar Revisited: Uyghur Studies in Memory of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the rich scholarly legacy of Gunnar Jarring, the Swedish Turkologist and diplomat, the fourteen contributions by sixteen authors representing a variety of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences provide an insight into ongoing research trends in Uyghur and Xinjiang Studies. In one way or other all the chapters explore how new research in the fields of history, linguistics, anthropology and folklore can contribute to our understanding of Xinjiang’s past and present, simultaneously pointing to those social and knowledge practices that Uyghurs today can claim as part of their traditions in order to reproduce and perpetuate their cultural identity. Contributors include: Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Rahile Dawut, Arienne Dwyer, Fredrik Fällman, Chris Hann, Dilmurat Mahmut, Takahiro Onuma, Alexandre Papas, Eric Schluessel, Birgit Schlyter, Joanne Smith Finley, Rune Steenberg Jun Sugawara, Äsäd Sulaiman, Abdurishid Yakup, Thierry Zarcone.
Book Synopsis Cape Verdean Women and Globalization by : K. Carter
Download or read book Cape Verdean Women and Globalization written by K. Carter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to explore what Cape Verdeans have to say about women's lives in the era of twenty-first century globalization. The authors investigate the economic and personal difficulties they face such as poverty, managing single mother-headed households, and violence.
Book Synopsis The Journal of West African Languages by :
Download or read book The Journal of West African Languages written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethnopragmatics written by Cliff Goddard and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies in this volume show how speech practices can be understood from a culture-internal perspective, in terms of values, norms and beliefs of the speech communities concerned. Focusing on examples from many different cultural locations, the contributing authors ask not only: 'What is distinctive about these particular ways of speaking?', but also: 'Why - from their own point of view - do the people concerned speak in these particular ways? What sense does it make to them?'. The ethnopragmatic approach stands in opposition to the culture-external universalist pragmatics represented by neo-Gricean pragmatics and politeness theory. Using "cultural scripts" and semantic explications - techniques developed over 20 years work in cross-cultural semantics by Anna Wierzbicka and colleagues - the authors examine a wide range of phenomena, including: speech acts, terms of address, phraseological patterns, jocular irony, facial expressions, interactional routines, discourse particles, expressive derivation, and emotionality. The authors and languages are: Anna Wierzbicka (English), Cliff Goddard (Australian English), Jock Wong (Singapore English), Zhengdao Ye (Chinese), Catherine Travis (Colombian Spanish), Rie Hasada (Japanese) and Felix Ameka (Ewe). Taken together, these studies demonstrate both the profound "cultural shaping" of speech practices, and the power and subtlety of new methods and techniques of a semantically grounded ethnopragmatics. The book will appeal not only to linguists and anthropologists, but to all scholars and students with an interest in language, communication and culture.
Book Synopsis Spirit Children by : Aaron R. Denham
Download or read book Spirit Children written by Aaron R. Denham and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ethnography of the "spirit children" phenomenon in northern Ghana, placing infanticide in both a deeply nuanced local context and a global public health framework.
Book Synopsis Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives by : Helen Lauer
Download or read book Reclaiming the Human Sciences and Humanities Through African Perspectives written by Helen Lauer and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2012 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compilation was inspired by an international symposium held on the Legon campus in September 2003. Hosted by the CODESRIA African Humanities Institute Programme, the symposium had the theme 'Canonical Works and Continuing Innovation in African Arts & Humanities'.
Book Synopsis Experiencing Gender by : Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco
Download or read book Experiencing Gender written by Rocío Carrasco-Carrasco and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides comprehensive insights into the concept of gender in an international context. By focusing on diverse and varied critical approaches, it explores how gender identities are shaped by socio-cultural factors, and provides a map of how gender experiences are understood and represented in the arts and society. Through an analysis of both focal and local experiences of gender within a global context, the contributions to this volume create a continuum in which gender and experience stand at a crossroads within the arts. Moreover, this crossroads intersects with the cultural determinations that some of the contributors explore in a critical way. Consequently, this volume represents a necessary contribution to the new maps of gender that are currently being set for the future. The book will appeal to academic scholars interested in the articulation of gender in traditional discourses, as well as the many deconstructions that have been undertaking in the recent past and the present. In addition, the volume is suitable for use in programmes and modules for undergraduate students of feminist and gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, literature, and popular culture, among other disciplines.
Book Synopsis An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts by : A. K. Awedoba
Download or read book An Ethnographic Study of Northern Ghanaian Conflicts written by A. K. Awedoba and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conflict in Northern Ghana appears to be increasing in amplitude and frequency and its effects are getting more devastating. It is the view of this book that The Government of Ghana and civil society organisations involved in aspects of conflict management have approached peace issues in the region with an inadequate understanding of the local issues that divide and unite the people, or using sufficient resources to pre-emt conflict. In 2003 The Mole V summit was held in Damongo to discuss strategic directions for comprehensive development and poverty reduction in Northern Ghana as a mechanism for supporting conflict management. It is the aim of this publication to contribute to the proposed plan by suggesting past and current conflict management resources and mechanisms which could be employed. The suggestions are informed by surveys, which are oulined in the book, of particular conflicts in the three northern Regions of Ghana between 2006 and 2008 - their histories, causes and efforts and their resolution.
Book Synopsis Competing Norms by : Mamadou Diawara
Download or read book Competing Norms written by Mamadou Diawara and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Review: "Explores what state regulations mean to people in sub-Saharan Africa in the light of already existing local norms with which new regulations compete. The contributions to this volume discuss the competing local, state, and international norms in a diachronic perspective and unfold the intricate ambivalences and contradictions that often characterize these regulations."--Page [4] of cover
Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana by : Mensah Adinkrah
Download or read book Witchcraft, Witches, and Violence in Ghana written by Mensah Adinkrah and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witchcraft violence is a feature of many contemporary African societies. In Ghana, belief in witchcraft and the malignant activities of putative witches is prevalent. Purported witches are blamed for all manner of adversities including inexplicable illnesses and untimely deaths. As in other historical periods and other societies, in contemporary Ghana, alleged witches are typically female, elderly, poor, and marginalized. Childhood socialization in homes and schools, exposure to mass media, and other institutional mechanisms ensure that witchcraft beliefs are transmitted across generations and entrenched over time. This book provides a detailed account of Ghanaian witchcraft beliefs and practices and their role in fueling violent attacks on alleged witches by aggrieved individuals and vigilante groups.
Download or read book Oral Tradition written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Changing Natural Resource Regimes in Northern Ghana by : Wolfram Laube
Download or read book Changing Natural Resource Regimes in Northern Ghana written by Wolfram Laube and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial and national interventions have considerably changed the natural resource regimes regarding water and land in Northern Ghana. However, this change has not led to the establishment of new institutions, but different actors - farmers, bureaucrats, earthpriests, chiefs, and politicians - are continuously engaged in negotiation process over (natural) resources. While the institutional and distributional outcomes of these negotiation processes remain inconclusive they have led to a precarious local power balance, in which different actors rely on different institutions and changing political alliances to pursue their interests.
